Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Targeting EZH2 reactivates a breast cancer subtype-specific anti-metastatic transcriptional program

  • Alison Hirukawa,
  • Harvey W. Smith,
  • Dongmei Zuo,
  • Catherine R. Dufour,
  • Paul Savage,
  • Nicholas Bertos,
  • Radia M. Johnson,
  • Tung Bui,
  • Guillaume Bourque,
  • Mark Basik,
  • Vincent Giguère,
  • Morag Park,
  • William J. Muller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04864-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Histone modifications in cancer can contribute to pathogenesis. Here, the authors demonstrate that targeting epigenetic modifier Ezh2 hinders metastatic behaviour in Luminal B breast cancer models, and highlight a mechanism where Ezh2 contributes to metastatic behaviour by repression of FOXC1.